Bruno Barreiro

Bruno Barreiro, Who Took Thouands From Stephen Ross, Removes Super Bowl L Clause From Sun Life Bill

For weeks, the Miami Dolphins have been promising that the team won't move forward with the $390 million renovation of Sun Life Stadium if the NFL doesn't award the city a Super Bowl in 2015 or 2016. Well, the Dolphins caught a break.A couple of hours ago, during deliberations by the Miami-Dade Coun ... More >>

Convicted Felon Demetrio Perez Jr. Gets $110 Million in Bonds From Miami-Dade Commission

Convicted Felon Demetrio Perez Jr. Gets $110 Million In Bonds From County Commission

You'd think that after Demetrio Perez Jr. pleaded guilty in 2002 to defrauding a trio of frail elderly tenants in his low-income Little Havana apartments, Miami-Dade politicians would steer clear of the felonious former school board member. But then they couldn't grease up to Perez and his deep pock ... More >>

Bruno Barreiro Wants To Use $110 Million In Bonds To Help Felonious Ex-School Board Member

Back in 2002, Demetrio Perez Jr. had an epic fall from prominence. The then-Miami-Dade Public Schools Board Member was removed from public office following his 21-count federal indictment that he had been overcharging elderly tenants at his federally subsidized low income apartments in Little Havana ... More >>

Tupac or Biggie? We Need More -- Not Less -- Info About Public Officials

As Riptide reported yesterday, Barbara Jordan believes Miami-Dade public employees' salaries shouldn't be available online. She's even introduced a resolution to strip that info from the web.Maybe it was the county commissioner's commanding Aug. 14 re-election that emboldened her to make such a move ... More >>

Norman Braman's Contributions Dried Up For the Nov. 6 County Commission Run-Offs

After raising nearly a million bucks to unseat four Miami-Dade County Commissioners in the August 14 primary, it seems billionaire auto magnate Norman Braman threw in the towel. According to the last three financial reports for his political action committee Change Miami Dade Now, Braman only chippe ... More >>

Bruno Barreiro Holds Fundraiser In Norman Braman's Neighborhood

A county commissioner targeted for termination by Norman Braman is taking the fight to the billionaire activist's home turf. Tonight, Indian Creek residents Carlos Peralta Quintero and his wife will hold a fundraiser for Bruno Barreiro at their three-acre, 13-bedroom, ten-bathroom waterfro ... More >>

Norman Braman Registers Boat in the Caymans to Avoid U.S. Fees

Incumbent County Commissioners Demolish Norman Braman's Slate UPDATED

Norman Braman was no match for the forces backing Miami-Dade County commissioners Bruno Barreiro, Audrey Edmonson, Barbara Jordan, and Dennis Moss. The billionaire car dealership mogul's slate of Luis Garcia, Alison Austin, Shirley Gibson and Alice Pena produced an epic fail. All four candidates, wh ... More >>

Your Guide To The Mysterious Political Committees Raising Big Bucks For Miami Candidates

Read "Carlos Gimenez Collects Half-A-Million Bucks In First Round of Fundraising" and "Carlos Gimenez Has Raised Nearly Twice As Much As Challenger Joe Martinez."With one day left before the primary, we're going to miss the proliferation of groups with cryptic, yet patriotic, monikers spreading misi ... More >>

Miami Marlins and Dolphins Give Big to Political Action Committees

Miami Marlins, Miami Dolphins Give Big To Political Committees

Life on the field has not gone well for Miami's football and baseball franchises. The Marlins sucked ass during the first half of the season playing inside the team's sparkling new ball park, which was financed with half-a-billion dollars in taxpayer funds. Meanwhile, the Dolphins organization has b ... More >>

Reader Mail: Metta World Peace Is a Scumbag

Bruno Barreiro Spent Thousands in Campaign Cash on Apple Computers

Bruno Barreiro Loves Going to the Apple Store With Campaign Funds

Like a lot of Apple fanboys, county Commissioner Bruno Barreiro recently spent big at the silicon superstore -- nabbing $6,583 worth of electronics at the Lincoln Road and Dadeland Mall outlets. He also reimbursed himself $4,166 for a computer.He didn't spend his own money on the gadgets; he dipped ... More >>

Carlisle Development Group Serves Audrey Edmonson With a Bundle of Cash

The Carlisle Development Group sure knows how to show gratitude to Audrey Edmonson. The Miami-based affordable housing developer ponied up $15,000 in contributions to the Miami-Dade County commissioner's reelection campaign, according to her recently filed campaign finance report. Edmonson has been ... More >>

Luis Garcia Pulls out of David Rivera Race, and Now Dems Have No Candidate

Rep. David Rivera is one of the most vulnerable Republican congressman in the entire country. He's under numerous criminal investigations, and his seat in District 25 is quickly seeing its Republican voter advantage fade. It could be a slam dunk for Democrats, assuming, of course, they had anyone to ... More >>

Miami Marlins hate taxpayers

With Politicians' Help, Marlins Are Screwing Stadium Neighbors

​Luther Campbell, the man whose booty-shaking madness made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke rips commissioners for the looming parking and traffic problems at the Miami Marlins ballpark.With the Marlins 16 days aw ... More >>

Miami-Dade commissioners take thousands from developers they help

Bruno Barreiro and Barbara Jordan Collect Thousands From Developers Who Benefit From Their Votes

It's an election year so you know what that means. People doing business with the Miami-Dade County are making sure they grease up the political campaigns of their favorite incumbents. That's how a quid pro quo works at County Hall. Commissioners vote in favor of their generous pals, even if it mean ... More >>

Miami-Dade Commissioner Bruno Barreiro has a bad attendance record

Bruno Barreiro Was 2011's Most Absent Miami-Dade Commissioner

If we showed up late or not at all for one of every three workdays, we'd be writing for the Winn-Dixie coupon book by next week. But Bruno Barreiro -- one of the 13 Miami-Dade commissioners charged with keeping this rickety skiff of a county afloat -- has somehow held office for 13 years despite spe ... More >>

Miami Herald's "House of Lies" exposes a crisis but then moves on

County Puts the Brakes on Miami's Bid to Cover Every Vertical Surface With Advertising

Forty-story billboards are still illegal -- at least for now.​If Marc Sarnoff and Tomás Regalado had their way, pretty much any stationary object within 1,000 feet of a major Miami roadway would be plastered with an LED billboard by next Tuesday. (Surely this has nothing to do with the fact that ... More >>

Bruno the Dim Loses One for the Billboard Industry

Bruno Barreiro is the sharpest knife in the drawer. NOT!​How the heck special interest groups and corporate conglomerates keep counting on Miami-Dade County Commissioner Bruno Barreiro is beyond belief. It's no secret Bruno the Dim is one of their tools, but the man can't pass legislation to save ... More >>

Miami-Dade commissioners are rich!

South Florida politicans' most memorable racial slurs

A Short History Of Ignorant Bigotry In South Florida Politics

The Reid Report blogDavid Leven in his car before he hurls slurs.​After North Miami Mayor Andre Pierre's wife caught unhinged activist David Leven on camera calling her the politically incorrect words for -- excuse our French -- African-American, female dog, and the feminine sexual organ, Banana R ... More >>

Natacha Seijas Booed At Hialeah Precinct During First Week Of Early Voting

Ding Dong The Witch Is...A steady roar of boos greeted Natacha Seijas Wednesday morning when she swooped into the John F. Kennedy Library in Hialeah, one of the early voting sites where citizens in her district are casting their ballots. The entrenched county commissioner, along with Miami-Dade Mayo ... More >>

Commissioner Carlos Gimenez Purposely Delayed Recall Meeting

Carlos Gimenez​Today the Miami-Dade County Commission was supposed to meet to set a date for the election to recall Mayor Carlos Alvarez. Problem was only six commissioners showed up, because Commissioners apparently find it OK to act like school skipping children. Which means the commission fell ... More >>

Glenn Straub: Too little too late

Hey Glenn Straub. I WANT to watch baseball downtown,. I WANT to TAKE the Metromover to games,But I wish you would just shut up.Straub penned a letter to the public (which you can find on the jump) defending his idea for a downtown stadium. But we've moved too far with the Little Havana stadium and I ... More >>

News Roundup

Elected Officials Reward Their Campaign Contributors

Give money, get contracts.

Give Money, Get Contracts, Part III

Give Money, Get Contracts

Banana Republican - Transit Follies

Bay of Pigs Museum the Latest to Devour Green Space

Bruno the Absent

He's not around much and he doesn't sponsor many bills, but this chairman's for you

Letters from the Issue of February 22, 2007

"Connolly's a scumbag"

Dog Day Afternoon

Man and beast do brunch

A Man in Fool

Free cops for your next event? Dorrin Rolle says yes.

You Are Cordially Invited

So you weren't among those lucky few who dined with the king and queen? Consider it a compliment.

The Enigma

The new chairman of the Miami-Dade delegation sets his own course in Tallahassee

What Makes Alvaro Run?

Alvaro Fernandez takes on Bruno Barreiro, his friends, and all their money. Ask him if he's worried.

That's Rich

Wanna know how county commissioners earn their keep? Don't bother checking financial disclosure forms.

Dinner Key's Raw Meat

He's young. He's politically naive. He's Miami's newest commissioner, Joe Sanchez.

Letters

Prestige Politics

The Case of the Invisible Candidate

, The 107th District state House race provides a mystery worthy of Dashiell Hammett